Pablo Hidalgo

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Twitter survivor (arguable). Director, Franchise/Story, Lucasfilm. Author of things, advisor of lore, sketcher of robots, subject of flimsy rumors. Not really here to argue.

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Were the far right French memes not dank enough? Did they not try AI images?

Continuing my 1984 Star Wars re-read with “The Final Trap!” the last of the newspaper strips. While I am grateful for Dark Horse reformatting the series to make it more widely available in the 90s (below, right), there’s nothing quite like seeing the wild newsprint colors of the originals (left).

I guess rent is overdue.

I like the "kids are losing interest in our action figures; let's include coins. kids love coins" thinking of 1985 in Star Wars. "... what if we included stamps?"

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Started my 1984 Star Wars re-read with the "Showdown" newspaper strip that ran from Dec. 26 '83 to Feb. 5 '84. It has the distinction of repeatedly calling Dengar "Zuckass," which is very funny.

Weekly drops vs all at once? I’ll go one further. I think TV shows should have dropped their episodes 20 years earlier.

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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

The Real Story of the Crisis at The Washington Postwww.theatlantic.com How the world’s greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch

My most batshit paranoiac thing is refusing to do video because I’m convinced it would give weirdos content to feed AI.

My secret dream is animation that looks like Al Williamson illustration.

History lesson: back before people made a living digesting media, ‘bashers / gushers’ was the forum equivalent terms for ‘grifters / shills’.

Ed gets it.

Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

The Shareholder Supremacywww.wheresyoured.at I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can proliferate unprofitable, unsustainable

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Oh, if you don’t like something I work on or are even tangentially involved in that’s totally cool, but you don’t have to tell me. This isn’t Twitter. 🙏 gonna be more generous with the blocks here and I blocked everyone who followed me once over there.

A lovely interview with Leslye Headland and she namechecks me for some fantastical metallurgical work. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

'The Acolyte' Almost Saved Its Biggest Mystery for Season 2, Showrunner Revealswww.inverse.com Following the brutal twist in Episode 5, 'The Acolyte' showrunner Leslye Headland teases a darker, emotional finale — and confirms a huge fan theory.

Happy 🇨🇦 Day!

Cortosis has been around since 1998. Beskar since 1994.

Inside Out 2 crossed a billion dollars in 19 days. No one knows anything (still).

Ranchin’

The Rutger Hour would be a good name for a podcast.

Videogames are none of my business.

Wow. Between this and Alex Jones, the country’s is suddenly taking a bold “anti-shooting kids” stance. Remarkable.

JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting

Former Uvalde school police chief, officer indicted in 1st-ever criminal charges over failed response to 2022 mass shooting | CNNwww.cnn.com A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers de...

Not interested in the Zemeckis griping (on the Other Site). Also, the source material is good and pairs well with him: “here’s a specific confine you need to work with.” I think that’s a good thing.

This happened to my buddy Miles O’Brien.

oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now sciencetimes.com/articles/509...

Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitationsciencetimes.com Discover how AI and brain implants are transforming rehabilitation. Read more on Cognify's innovative prison concept now!

August 8th. Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin. www.aptn.ca/star-wars-an...

“Star Wars (Anangong Miigaading), A New Hope”: An alliance to revitalize the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) language set to make its premiere August 8, 2024 | APTNwww.aptn.ca The Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) version of Star Wars: A New Hope makes its debut August 8, 2024 at Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg. Manitoba. Starting on August 10, the film will debut in limited re...

“Um, hello, yes. I was wondering if you had any advice to a young person looking to become a presidential candidate?”

When / why did “by accident” become “on accident” and can we go back?

The most I ever related to a character on screen was that DS9 when the crew was possessed by the psychic imprint of a culture bent on backstabbing intrigue and all Sisko wanted to do was be left alone to quietly build a clock.

A co-worker pointed out that I’m the worst kind of famous in that if you know who I am, the odds that you’re also very damaged is quite high.

Was referred to as a ‘unique use-case’ today and you know what, damn right.